Cambridge, MA, September 10, 2004 — Cambridge Technology Enterprises (CTE) Inc., a leader in Real-Time Event Processing and Decision Management Solutions, is helping Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, KS; develop content and software tools to assist emergency management personnel to respond more effectively to agricultural bio-terrorist events.

The National Agricultural Bio-Security Center (NABC) at the KSU has received government grant funding for the development and integration of a suite of dynamic, interactive software tools designed directly to address the educational, training, and situational awareness requirements of individuals involved with agriculture, food and public health. Specific solutions included in the software suite are an interactive agrosecurity screensaver, a "lessons learned" database that will capture data from federal, state, and local agrosecurity exercises, and a real-time dashboard powered by CTE's Protect Hometown America application.

The integration of Protect Hometown America will give the NABC the ability to aggregate agrosecurity and lessons learned data while filtering, analyzing and displaying food and agriculture safety and protection content in a manner that provides valuable, real-time information to agricultural specialists.

The project is called "Situational Competency, Simulations and Lessons Learned for Food/Agricultural Bioterrorism." The Department of Defense is funding the project through the Technical Support Working Group of the Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office.

Speaking on Protect Hometown America, Bhaskar Panigrahi, CEO - CTE Inc said, "The project will go a long way in developing systems to counter agro terrorism. We hope to give a very concrete solution that will be steamed with a powerful real-time processing capability".

The first objective of the project is to scour the nation's emergency response community for examples of significant lessons it has learned from various agrosecurity response efforts, including naturally occurring outbreaks of diseases of plants and production animals, and response exercise simulations. Once the agricultural bioterrorism lessons are compiled, the next step is to adapt existing software and technologies to handle agrosecurity issues and to be used by emergency management personnel at all levels who need to access such agrosecurity information.

About the National Agricultural Bio-Security Center (NABC)

The National Agricultural Biosecurity Center (NABC) was established by Kansas State University (KSU) to coordinate interdisciplinary activities focused on protecting America's agricultural infrastructure and economy from endemic and emerging biological threats.

About Cambridge Technology Enterprises Inc.
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